ISBN: 9781904838357
Nicholas Brealey Publishing

When Teams Collide: Managing the International Team Successfully
Richard D. Lewis

The successful managers for the next century will be the culturally sensitive ones. You can gain competitive advantage from having strategies to deal with the cultural differences you will encounter in any international business setting. Richard Lewis provides a guide to working and communicating across cultures, and explains how your culture and language affect the ways in which you think and respond. This book provides an ever more global and practical guide not just to understanding but also managing across different business cultures. It is a toolkit for leading and participating in international teams - from India to Ireland, Belgium to Brazil, Mexico to Malaysia, the Czech Republic to Chile.

ISBN: 9781857885927
Nicholas Brealey Publishing

The Only Way to Win
How Building Character Drives Higher Achievement and Greater Fulfilment in Business and Life
Jim Loehr

The conditioning begins early in our lives. Great achievements will bring lasting happiness and fulfillment; great achievements form the bedrock of stable self-esteem and strong character; great achievements will become the foundation for a successful life. If these well-intentioned promises are true, why does winning never seem to be enough? In The Only Way to Win, Jim Loehr draws upon two decades of work with Fortune 500 executives; world-class athletes such as Monica Seles, Dan Jansen, and Eric Lindros; and other high achievers at the Human Performance Institute (HPI) to reveal surprising insights about achievement motivation. Specifically, Loehr finds that the blind pursuit of external achievement often results in emptiness, addiction, and, ironically, poor performance. It's not really about what you achieve, he argues, it's about who you become as a consequence of the chase. From the bestselling author of On Form, comes a compelling, practical, and hopeful read filled with relatable stories and useful exercises. The Only Way to Win will serve as a powerful wake-up call for business leaders, employees, teachers, and coaches. It will also provide inspiration for readers looking to perform better, achieve more, and change both their own lives and those of the people they influence.

Tax Planning Singapore: A Practical Guide
Fifth Edition
K.C. Lau

Tax Planning Singapore: A practical Guide is of particular relevance to students of accountancy and to individual and corporate taxpayers. Clearly and concisely written, it explains the broad principles of tax planning and how to structure tax returns to reap the maximum concessions granted by the tax authorities. Now into its fifth edition, this book is the latest in the market, incorporating all the budget and off-budget proposals announced in February 2011 as well as having a new chapter on goods and services tax: Subjects covered include:, Tax deductions, Capital allowances, Double taxation agreements, Overseas investments and income, Tax shelters, Tax havens, Property tax, Goods and services tax Definitely a must-read for anyone needing an overview of Singapore's tax structure.

Uncle Lau’s Teochew Recipes
Tan Lee Leng / Lau Chiap Khai

Enjoy the rich culinary heritage of the Teochews with this compact cookbook, which features over 80 authentic family recipes.
Besides the usual Teochew fare of steamed fish and ngoh hiang, this book features many little-known traditional Teochew dishes—some even exclusive to the author’s family, such as Ho Pung and Sio Bee.
These time-tested recipes are painstakingly compiled by Mr Lau Chiap Khai’s daughter, Tan Lee Leng. A woman of many talents, Lee Leng is a food consultant, food writer, chef, food stylist, and a formally trained potter. Lee Leng was trained in the art of Teochew cuisine by her father, and holds a diploma from Le Cordon Bleu in London. Her father, affectionately known by friends and family as Uncle Lau, handed down their family’s recipes to Lee Leng in the hopes that she preserves their heritage. By compiling her father’s recipes, Lee Leng has shared this culinary heirloom so that current and future generations will be able to enjoy these wonderful recipes.
Uncle Lau’s Teochew Recipes is part of Epigram Books’ award-winning Heritage Cookbook series, which showcases the best of Singapore’s major cuisines through authentic family recipes.

Lens on Life
Stephanie C. Roberts

Mostly candid and spontaneous, the documentary photograph serves to record and preserve a moment in time while the photographer plays the role of an objective observer, minimising their influence on the subject of focus. This book is intended to inspire the reader to explore, define, plan, shoot, and share documentary photographs, sparking creative ideas and guiding them as they define their own approach. Through the work of the author, and ten seasoned photographers who have visually documented stories all over the world, this book will build the reader’s curiosity, confidence and courage to take on personal or professional documentary assignments. There are tips that will help challenge, strengthen, broaden, or even shatter a long-standing perspective, or expose a view of life that wouldn’t otherwise be seen. Uniquely, this book adds to the reader’s development by helping them share their skills with their family; the ‘Seek and Shoot’ chapter is filled with fun exercises that can make photography enjoyable and educational for their children.

Thomas Heatherwick: Making
Thomas Heatherwick

Still just two decades into his career, British designer Thomas Heatherwick has been heralded as one of the most original creative talents for many decades, a ‘Leonardo da Vinci of our times’ (Terence Conran). He has produced everything from zippered bags that can be expanded to five times their size (Longchamp) and sculptural chairs forged from the world’s largest aluminium extruder, to a bridge that rolls open and closed, and an exuberant seed bank, ‘hairy’ with fibre-optic lights (the award-winning UK Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai Expo). This book is the first to present an exhaustive overview covering the studio’s entire history – over 140 projects. Years in development, the book has been prepared in close collaboration with Heatherwick himself, offering an in-depth and behind-the-scenes look at all aspects of Heatherwick’s creative, design and manufacturing processes. Projects are organized chronologically and bookended by an introduction setting out the studio’s philosophy and a reference section. Each project is fully illustrated and accompanied by a text explaining, in Heatherwick’s own words, the particular design challenge it posed and the creative and practical processes it engendered.